Doctor of Philosophy Joel E. Adablah – Analytical Chemistry Major Professor: Dr. Michael G. Roper “Scalable Online Fluorescence–based Technologies for Rapid, Parallel Hormone Detection on Microfluidic Platforms” Mojgan Aghakhanloo – Physics Major Professor: Dr. Jeremiah Murphy “Constraining the Evolution of Massive Stars” Ronald Andringa – Cognitive Psychology Major Professor: Dr. Walter Boot “Do the Benefits of Camouflage Visual Search Training Transfer to Novel Search Situations? Exploring Mechanism and the Limits of Transfer” Luke G. Arredondo – Religion Major Professor: Dr. Aline Kalbian “Leo XIII and the Development of 20th Century Catholic Theology” Suliman Al Hemali Ayad – Materials Chemistry Major Professor: Dr. Kenneth Hanson “Practical Applications of Excited State Proton Transfer: From Super Acidity and Enantioenrichment to White Light Emission and Sensors” Piyali Basak – Statistics Major Professor: Dr. Debajyoti Sinha “Analysis of Clustered Interval–Censored Survival Data: An Application to Prostate Surgery Study” Ruth Baumann – Creative Writing Major Professor: Dr. James H. Kimbrell “Book of Soft Joys” Kathie Lynn Beebe – History Major Professors: Dr. Ron Doel and Dr. Andrew Frank “Pollution and Power: The Haudenosaunee and Environmental Justice on a Cold War Borderland” Anish Bhardwaj – Physics Major Professor: Dr. Efstratios Manousakis “Linked Cluster Expansion of The Many–Body Path–Integral” Brandi Bradley – Creative Writing Major Professor: Professor Elizabeth Stuckey–French “The Virgin Mom” Nick Byrd – Philosophy Major Professor: Dr. John Schwenkler “Reflective Reasoning for Real People: Clarifying the Role of Reflection in Philosophy, Science, and Bias” John Henry Cable – History Major Professor: Dr. Maxine Jones “Decolonization and Southern Society: Land, Labor, and Race in East Central Mississippi” Maari LyShea Carter – Creative Writing Major Professors: Professor Erin C. Belieu and Dr. James H. Kimbrell “Women Under the Stars” Ellen Marie Cecil–Lemkin – Rhetoric and Composition Major Professor: Dr. Michael R. Neal “Including Disability in Collaborative Writing Pedagogy” Eimma Chebinou – French Major Professor: Dr. Reinier Leushuis “Francophone Studies: Representation of the Banlieusard in Literature, Cinema and Performances” Yu–Che Chiu – Physics Major Professor: Dr. Luis Balicas “De Haas–van Alphen and Magneto–Transport Properties on Topological Nodal–Line Semimetals ZrXT (X=Si, Ge; M=Se, Te)” Amber Lynn Cresgy – Literature, Media, and Culture Major Professor: Dr. Alisha Gaines “‘Toward a New Neo–Slave Narrative’: Troubling the Limitations of Genre in Black Women’s Speculative Bondage Narratives” Jonathan Andrew Christophersen – Meteorology Major Professor: Dr. Philip Sura “Observational Analysis of Atmospheric and Oceanic Diurnal Cycles in the Tropical Atlantic” 2 Lauren Alexandra Cole – Biological Science Major Professor: Dr. Jonathan Dennis “Chromatin–based Organization of the Human Genome from Single Promoters to Nucleoskeletal Dynamics” Mengyu Dai – Statistics Major Professor: Dr. Anuj Srivastava “Inference from Longditudinal Imaging Data Using SPDM Trajectories” Sweta Das – Meteorology Major Professors: Dr. Vasubandhu Misra and Dr. Guosheng Liu “Understanding the Evolution of Tropical Cyclones through the Streamfunction–Velocity Potential Framework” Apurva Sunder Desai – Statistics Major Professors: Dr. Antonio Linero and Dr. Adrian Barbu “Multi–Rubric Models for Ordinal Spatial Data” Meghan L. Donovan – Neuroscience – Psychology Major Professor: Dr. Zuoxin Wang “The Gut–Brain Axis and Behaviors in a Socially Monogamous Rodent Species” Logan B. Edwards – History Major Professor: Dr. Katherine Mooney “The Southern Masquerade: Rural Private Academies and the Reconstruction of the Past” Alan Febraio Parma – Spanish Major Professor: Dr. Michael Leeser and Dr. Lara Reglero “The Second Language Acquisition of Spanish Accusative Clitics” Jamile Marmitt Forcelini – Spanish Major Professors: Dr. Michael Leeser and Dr. Gretchen Sunderman “The Processing and Acquisition of Cognates in Second Language Learning: Strengthening Lexical Connections in the Developing Bilingual Lexicon” Perla Esmeralda Garcia Frutis – Spanish Major Professors: Dr. Michael Leeser and Dr. Antje Muntendam “The Oral Production and Comprehension of Double–Que Questions in Adult and Child Heritage Speakers of Spanish” Andrew Bradley Gardner – Religion Major Professor: Dr. Amanda Porterfield “‘To Awaken the Song of Transport’: The Development of Theological Seminaries and Divinity Schools in Antebellum America” 3 Xiaoyang Guo – Statistics Major Professor: Dr. Anuj Srivastava “Geometric Tools for Statistical Analysis on Graphical Shapes” Rasheda Danielle Haughbrook – Developmental Psychology Major Professor: Dr. Sara Hart “Exploring Racial Bias in Standardized Assessments and Teacher–Reports of Student Achievement with Differential Item and Test Functioning Analyses” Alyssa May Henderson – Physics Major Professors: Dr. Theo Siegrist and Dr. Christanne Beekman “Geometric Frustration in Magnetic Systems: A Path to Quantum Materials” Kate McGrath Hill – Biological Science Major Professor: Dr. Janie Wulff “Community Ecology of Mesofauna Associated with the Caribbean Fire Sponge, Tedania ignis, and Context–Dependent Effects of Symbiosis” Jill Elizabeth Hopkins – History Major Professor: Dr. G. Kurt Piehler “Throw a Nickel on the Grass: Operation Nickel Grass, American Airlift, and Power Projections in the Era of Détente” Grayson Scott Jorgenson – Mathematics Major Professor: Dr. Paolo Aluffi “Secant Indices, Duality Defect, and Generalizations of the Segre Zeta Function” Christian L. Juergens, Jr. – History Major Professor: Dr. Rafe Blaufarb “Chasing Fabius: The Army of Hessen–Kassel in the Age of Revolutions” Bryan Andrew Keller – Biological Oceanography Major Professor: Dr. Ralph Dean Grubbs “The Spatial Ecology of the Bonnethead, Spyrna Tiburo: Migration, Partution and Magnetic–based Navigation” Ahmet Kilinc – Applied & Computational Mathematics Major Professor: Dr. Monica Hurdal “A Nonlinear Mathematical Model of Cerebral Cortical Folding Development” Bonnie Ellen Klamm – Chemistry Major Professor: Dr. Thomas Albrecht–Schmitt “Exploring the F–Block through Non–Aqueous Coordination Chemistry” 4 Bailey Anne Koch – Biological Science Major Professor: Dr. Hong–Guo Yu “Regulation at the Inner Nuclear Membrane: Degradation and Reorganization in S. cerevisiae” Kirill Korshunov – Neuroscience – Biology Major Professor: Dr. Paul Trombley “Biophysical Properties and Modeling of Olfactory Bulb Dopamine Neurons” Thanittha Kowan – Mathematics Major Professor: Dr. Philip Bowers “Conformal Tilings and Expansion Complexes” Vincent James Lakey – Physics Major Professor: Dr. Kevin Huffenberger “The Thermal Sunyaev–Zel’dovich and Diffuse X–ray Emission Cross Correlation” Peiye Liu – Organic Chemistry Major Professor: Dr. Lei Zhu “Copper(II)–Promoted Alkyne Coupling Reactions and the Ruthenium–Catalyzed Cycloaddition of Cyanoalkynes” Chun–Chao Lo – Statistics Major Professor: Dr. Jinfeng Zhang “Application of Deep Learning in Text Mining and Computational Structural Biology” Jason Scott Lynn – Biological Science Major Professor: Dr. Karen McGinnis “Characterization of the Chromatin–interacting Proteins of the Maize b1 Paramutation Locus” Quintin Mabanta – Physics Major Professor: Dr. Jeremiah Murphy “Quantifying the Explosion Conditions of Core–Collapse Supernovae” Brian Patrick Mackey – Meteorology Major Professor: Dr. Jon E. Ahlquist “Heavy Rainfall Enhanced by Warm Season Fronts and Orography in Western North Carolina: Synoptic Classification and Physical Drivers” Heather M. Maranges – Social Psychology Major Professor: Dr. Paul Conway “But Are They Even Tempted? Trait Self–Control Predicts Unselfish Moral Decision Making Through Reduced Temptation” 5 Calyn B. Maske – Neuroscience – Psychology Major Professor: Dr. Diana Williams “Impaired Satiation in Disordered Eating” Margaret Susannah Mauk – Literature, Media, and Culture Major Professor: Dr. Aaron Jaffe “‘The Maternal Plot’: The Working Mothers of Modernism” Luis E. Mendoza – Physics Major Professor: Dr. Nicholas Bonesteel “Pairing and Pair–Breaking in a Bilayer Composite Fermion Metal” Andrew Robert Moffatt – Philosophy Major Professors: Dr. Simon May and Dr. Michael Ruse “A Pragmatic Approach to the Egalitarian Divide” Sherez Renee Mohamed – Spanish Major Professor: Dr. Carolina Gonzalez and Dr. Antje Muntendam “A Socio–Phonetic Perspective on Language Contact: The Case of Arabic–Spanish Bilinguals in Puerto Rico” Daniel Moysaenko – Creative Writing Major Professor: Dr. James H. Kimbrell “Originally Nothing” Kent W. Peacock – History Major Professor: Dr. Suzanne Sinke “Sexuality, States, and Settlers: Reproducing Sexual Order in the Early Republican Trans–Appalachian West” Farooz Ahmed Rather – Creative Writing Major Professor: Dr. Bruce M. Horack, Jr. “The Night of Broken Glass” Jonathan Alfred Reeder – Classics Major Professor: Dr. Svetoslava Slaveva–Griffin “Galen’s Protrepticus in Context” Jayme Keegan Ringleb – Creative Writing Major Professors: Professor Erin C. Belieu and Dr. David K. Kirby “A Wedding of Jackals” Olga Romero Mestas – Spanish Major Professor: Dr. Jose Gomariz “Fragmentación, Identidad y Geopolítica en el Caribe y Filipinas. La Resistencia Discursiva en las Postrimerías del Imperio Español” 6 Tiffany Robayna – Spanish Major Professor: Dr. Michael Leeser “Teaching Grammar Online; the Intersection between Computer Assisted Language Learning and Processing Instruction in Spanish